blake

comparative blaker · comparative more blake · superlative blakest · superlative most blake

1. Northern EnglandUKdialectalpoeticuncommonYellow, as butter or cheese.

   White shows the rye, the big of big of blaker hue,[…]

   1747, Josiah Relph, A Miscellany of Poems,: Consisting of Original Poems, Translations, Pastorals in the Cumberland Dialect, Familiar Epistles, Fables, Songs, and Epigrams, page 13

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   […] the E. blake (identical with AS. blac, G. bleich, pale) is provincially used in the sense of yellow. As blake as a paigle, as yellow as a cowslip.

   1859, Hensleigh Wedgwood, A Dictionary of English Etymology: A - D, page 184

   Miss Lizzie's ower dark for my fancy. I mind nowt aboot your dark lasses - as blake as marygowds an' as black as corbies.

   1876, Elizabeth Lynn Linton, Lizzie Lorton of Greyrigg: A Novel ..., page 271

   Noo, that's a bit o' neyce blake butter. Thoo nobbut leeaks blakeish.

   1911, Richard Blakeborough, Wit, Character, Folklore & Customs of the North Riding of Yorkshire, page 340

plural Blakes · alternative Blayke · alternative Blaeke · alternative Blayke

1. A surname.
   1. countableuncountableAn English surname transferred from the nickname.
   2. countableuncountableA surname from Irish.
2. A unisex given name.
   1. countableuncountableA male given name transferred from the surname.
   2. countableuncountablerather rareA female given name transferred from the surname.
3. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Owsley County, Kentucky, United States.